The Greek government is really getting desperate, especially considering that it is seeking out another financial bailout from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund. It is becoming so desperate for money that it is resorting to its history of Nazi occupation of its land.
Greek Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos spoke in Parliament threatening to confiscate German property to help pay for the damage done by Nazi troops and compensate victims of the Nazis – from more than 70 years ago. Meanwhile, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras alleges that the German government has been using “legal tricks” to help evade these reparations.
Tspiras believes the damage inflicted upon the Greek people by the Nazi leadership is still “vivid” and “fresh in the memory” of people today. He defended his government by purporting that Greece has a “moral obligation to remember what the (German) forces did to the country.”
“Germany has never properly paid reparations for the damage done to Greece by the Nazi occupation,” Tsipras said during a parliamentary debate. “After the reunification of Germany in 1990, the legal and political conditions were created for this issue to be solved. But since then, German governments chose silence, legal tricks and delay.”
What has been the German government’s response to this? They’ve dismissed it entirely and want to focus on the current day’s financial woes taking place in Greece. The likelihood of any negotiations or meeting over these WWII demands is “zero” because they have paid any and all reparations and the matter has been politically resolved for a long time.
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